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Michael Wasney

@michaelwasney.bsky.social
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PhD candidate @ UCLA | Garud Lab | Eco-evolutionary dynamics of microbial systems | michaelwasney.github.io

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Nandita Garud @nanditagarud.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Our paper entitled "The persistence and loss of hard selective sweeps amid admixture in ancient Eurasians" is now out in PNAS! www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1.... A really fun and informative collaboration with @mharris.bsky.social, Ziyi Mo and Adam Siepel. (1/n)
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The persistence and loss of hard selective sweeps amid admixture in ancient Eurasians | PNAS
The extent to which human adaptations have persisted throughout history despite strong eroding demographic events such as admixture, genetic drift,...
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Chris Kyriazis @ckyriazis.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
New preprint! We sequenced 175 'Alalā (Hawaiian crow) genomes to understand why >50% of eggs fail to hatch in a species recovered from just 9 individuals. What we found was a both exciting and surprising. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Michael Wasney @michaelwasney.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
I am thrilled to present my latest work, which finds that bacterial genetic diversity (in the form of co-colonizing strains of the same species and the genetic variants they harbor) is uniformly distributed along the gut. Read more about it at Nature Communications! doi.org/10.1038/s414...
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Uniform bacterial genetic diversity along the gut - Nature Communications
Here, the authors show that while species composition varies significantly across gut regions, genetic diversity within species is remarkably uniform and driven by similar strain frequencies along the...
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